Lauren Davis

Magical unicorn sculpture pees lemonade and shoots fire from its horn

For those occasions when an ordinary drink dispenser just won’t do, summon a mighty carousel unicorn who provides both beverages and a show. When she isn’t peeing lemonade from her nether parts, she’s sneezing glitter and blasting fire from her horn. Anna Schumacher shared her spectacular wedding unicorn with the site Offbeat Bride. Since she…

Adventure Time‘s Princess Bubblegum and Marceline as Modern Madonnas

Illustrator micro cosmo casts two of the ladies of Adventure Time as Modern Madonnas. Princess Bubblegum is Mary with Lemongrab child while Marceline sheds tears for the Ice King in an echo of the Pietà. Modern Madonnas [micromicrocosm via x7r]

Download some of the year’s best screenplays (legally)

Movie award season is upon us and, as part of their bid to attract nominations and awards, some studios have made their screenplays available online, allowing us to sit down with the scripts for Gravity, Frozen, and more. Bleeding Cool points us to several of the screenplays that have been released online: All Is Lost…

Our destiny is in space in teaser for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar doesn’t reveal any new details of the plot, but it is a celebration of aviation and spaceflight while insisting human destiny lies above. Here is the synopsis from the website (thanks to GeraltOfTrivia): In the future, governments and economies across the globe have collapsed, food is scarce, NASA…

Two souls form a strange friendship on an island in a river to Hell

Like so many other souls living in the world of the webcomic Judecca (NSFW), Sharky lives a shabby life, spending his days in Sisyphean labor and his evenings with too little warmth and too little food in the company of his rabbit roommate, while his own body becomes more like a shark’s. But when a…

How would a pandemic spread through our air transportation routes?

If an extremely virulent infection started in Atlanta and spread thanks to folks traveling by plane, what path would it take to reach Sydney or Madagascar? These videos represent models of imagined airplane-borne epidemics. Dirk Brockmann, a Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University Berlin, and Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in…

Eleventh Doctor’s Companions beg him to stay in a Regeneration Carol

We know that Matt Smith’s Doctor will be celebrating a bittersweet Christmas in this year’s Doctor Who special, and in this video from Not Literally, he gathers with his companions for a parodic rendition of “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” The Not Literally ladies invite Matt Elliott to join them as the reluctantly departing Doctor. Say…

It’s official: Emilia Clarke is our new Sarah Connor. Deadline reports that the Game of Thrones star has been cast in Alan Taylor’s Terminator reboot, which is rumored to involve a trip to the future.

Walking the plazas of the Temple of Sky

The temple was held aloft by an ancient spell carved into a pair of open-air plazas. An acolyte was always stationed on each square, walking the symbols along the floor as if tracing a mandala. If either paused in her perambulations, the temple would start to sink. Fantasy architecture by Jiwon Kim. The Temple of…

Short documentary turns folks into personifications of their nightmares

In Dreams is an experimental documentary on a familiar subject: common recurring nightmares. But with a little animation, the dreamers are transformed into the very things they fear when they close their eyes. Samuel Blain directed this In Dreams as his final year graduation film at Northumbria University. [via Vimeo Staff Picks]

What if the Orphan Black clones met as kids?

Fan comic Itty Bitty Orphan Black is Orphan Black’s answer to Tiny Titans, imagining the early adventures of Sarah, her fellow clones, and their friends at Dyad Preschool, with plenty of cheeky references to the TV show (and spoilers). There’s only one issue of the comic up so far, but it sounds like there are…

Aubrey Plaza goes full zombie in photos from Life After Beth

Aubrey Plaza doesn’t look like her usual cool and collected self in the first images from the zombie film Life After Beth. In fact, she looks feral and very much dead—not to mention hungry. Collider shares the first images from Life After Beth, which is directed by I Heart Huckabees writer Jeff Baena and will…

Crowdfund comics based on the lesser-known Grimm fairy tales and more

On the list of projects looking for a little crowfunding is an artbook depicting a world created by movie concept artists, a collection of comics based on the tales of the Brothers Grimm, a swashbuckling all-ages fantasy novel, a series of stories from the universe of the Elite computer games, and an anthology of short…

US spy agency launched this Earth-conquering octopus logo into orbit

It sounds like a joke, but this octopus, which looks like it might just eat the Earth, waving its tentacles over the slogan “Nothing is Beyond Our Reach,” is the logo for NROL-39, the latest satellite mission launched by the United States’ National Reconnaissance Office. This logo adorns the NROL-39 satellite, which was launched by…

In this knight’s zany quest to save a princess, nothing is as it seems

Dreaming of fame and glory, the less than heroic knight in the short animated film 850 Meters embarks on a pretty typical quest: find a magic sword, slay a dragon, and rescue a princess locked in a tower. But as his adventure takes a series of bizarre turns, it becomes clear that there’s more going…

Pin-up calendar features not-so-sexy monsters in sexy poses

Looking for something a pin-up calendar that’s a little different? How about Nosferatu, Godzilla, and Slimer giving their best come hither looks in a series of prints that proves light-hearted seduction isn’t just for conventionally attractive monsters. Erika Deoudes’ 2014 Sexy Monsters Calendar is 12 months of funny monster pin-ups, available as prints in a…

Corsets meet Star Trek in these Victorian Starfleet uniform dresses

For those times when you’re flung unexpectedly back in time—or if you just don’t want to change clothes between work and your favorite holonovel—cosplayer Genovefa has dreamed up these Starfleet-themed dresses with long skirts and a bit of Victorian-inspired corsetry. Genovefa is modeling the Captain Janeway dress while her friend models the Data version. You…

Why Smaug Still Matters

This week, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits theaters, introducing us to Peter Jackson’s vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous dragon. But in a media landscape overstuffed with dragons, why do we still care so much about Smaug? Top image: Crop from J.R.R. Tolkien’s own illustration “Conversation with Smaug.” “A dragon is no idle…

Just Four People are Making This Stunning Video Game

The rich and beautiful No Man’s Sky has stolen the show at VGX. Check out the trailer below and marvel that just four people are working on this incredible space adventure game.

Night of the Swarming Post-It Notes

Their intelligence told them that adhesive notes would provide the perfect disguise for their drones: innocuous and ubiquitous, found in the highest levels of government and the private sector. But they failed to understand just how out of place the neon bits of paper would be sailing about outdoors. One of many swarming object photographs…